We used to set aside a significant chunk of our SSDs to keep them from dying. In 2026, it's time to reclaim that space.

How modern NVMe controllers finally killed the old-school SSD over-provisioning habit ...

I've been doing some research on manual over-provisioning of SSD's and the attendant performance increases and reductions in write amplification that the procedure can provide, and was wondering if ...

When an SSD is developed it will consist of standard memory chips. They come in 64GB, 128GB and 256GB capacities. However, many Sandforce powered drives up until now typically use some of that storage ...

Solid-state drives contain more NAND than is required to meet the listed capacity on the box. The reasoning for this is that the controller requires some of it for garbage collection and to replace ...